CALIFORNIA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1341, 24 June 1859, Page 5

CALIFORNIA.

The Hamburg ship 'Fiisoo has brought to Melbourne, California news to the 13th March. Wβ take the following from the Melbourne Herald :—

On the 2nd instant.the Miners of Horsetown Shasta country, assembled about one hundred strong, for the purpose of driving the Chinese from the adjoining districts. The sheriff of the county, A C. Stockton, summoned a posse at Towiisend flat t-» resist the movement. Learning this, the miner? started for Shasta, collecting-and (hiving before them all the Ch - namen they could find at Oregon Flat, Middletown, and other points along the route. The Sheriff started in pursuit, but on arriving at Middletown, learned, that a portion had left with about hvo hundred Chinese, while another party was still behind. He immediately drew his party up in line to receive them. On their approach, lie ordered them to disperse, which they did immediately, taking to the bushes and leaving ahout 75 Chinamen in charge of the Sheriff. Meantime, DeputyshertffDenc summoned about seventy persons, and met the advance parties a short distance from Townsend —ordered them to discharg-e the Cbinese, which they did, and also arrested one of the party. The rioters then marched through the town, and were harangued by a number of persons, among whom was an ex-assembly man. Considerable rioting occurred during the night, and a fight took place in a hotel in the upper part of the town, during which two men were severely cut with knives. A serious collision between tho authorities and miners is feared.

The Swiss Boy, a brig for San Fransisco, having been driven by stress of weather into Nintinat Sound, on the coast of Vancouver, was boarded by Indians, who, after plundering the vessel, burned it. The Era gives the particulars iv the following paragraph:— On the 28th of Janwary, the brig Swiss Boy, of San Fransisce left Port Olferd, Washington territory, fur this port, with a ' load of lumber. A jjale springing up from the south and east, with a heavy sea, the vessel sprang a leak, and was diiren into Nitinnt Sound, on the Vancouver coast, and, after.much difficulty and danger, was anchored lee of an island, about four miles from the entrance of theSouiid. On the Ist February, while the crew of the vessel were endeavouring to pull her to the beach for the purpose of repair, abjut three hundred Indians, apparently frieudly, and armed with bows'and arrows, muskets, kuives, and tomahawk?, boarded the brig, and making an attack upon the crew, compelled them to escape in a small boat. Beaching the shore, they were taken prisoners by the savages, and carried seven or eight miles inland, where they were kept ten days in tfonSneinentaud [hen liberated only after Captain Weiden bad promised to return from Victoria with presents for them. They started for San Juan in canoes, but a portion of them fell in with the schooner Morning Slar, anrl were taken to Victoria. The Sioits Bo;/,akcthe\ng plundered by the Indians, was burned. Laying his grievances before Governor Douglas, Captain Weiden was informed by tint official that the brig in entering the Sound, became a lawful prize, and the Indians very properly took possession of it.